As far as Mind Spike and Mind Blast not being on the talent being an example of how incomplete the talent trees are remember that the talent trees are going to be far more streamlined and they are making more abilities base for classes/specs. Just because something isn't on there doesn't mean it will be removed. It's quite possible that atonement will be baseline for all disc priests. There is just no way to know for sure until they release a full list of what things are going to be baseline though.

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Oh also obvi this is still waaay preliminary. So no doubt things will change/probably aren't very complete either way

As far as Mind Spike and Mind Blast not being on the talent being an example of how incomplete the talent trees are remember that the talent trees are going to be far more streamlined and they are making more abilities base for classes/specs. Just because something isn't on there doesn't mean it will be removed. It's quite possible that atonement will be baseline for all disc priests. There is just no way to know for sure until they release a full list of what things are going to be baseline though.

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Oh also obvi this is still waaay preliminary. So no doubt things will change/probably aren't very complete either way

A-freaking-men.

I mean there are clear omissions in the current trees. Divine Aegis for example... this is just round 1 of the preview and blah blah blah, under development blah blah.

I also think that it's interesting that the only heal shadowpriests have atm is Flash heal. No renew, Heal, Greater Heal, etc.. Also: No more shadow prot? I suppose that could be due to oversight from wanting to get them out there.

I also think that it's interesting that the only heal shadowpriests have atm is Flash heal. No renew, Heal, Greater Heal, etc.. Also: No more shadow prot? I suppose that could be due to oversight from wanting to get them out there.

The talent calculator released is far from complete. This is obvious in the absence of Mind Spike and Mind Blast despite mention of them in talents. Atonement is a really unique healing spec, and one I believe Blizzard to be very proud of, I don't see them scrapping it entirely.

Originally Posted by unholytestament

You would think that after all these years people would have realized that the people at Blizzard aren't sorcerors and are hindered by technology just like the rest of us mortals.

Originally Posted by stormcall

I will never understand why so many people who quit can't just QUIT and move on, and instead feel the need to come tell everyone about it, as if they just won the $100 million jackpot.

Evangelism is still in the spec. You're still intended to be casting Holy Fire and Smite, and they want to bring Holy Nova in that too. Atonement's not gone, just whoever is concept design for Priest wasn't there, so they threw in a bunch of spells and hoped they weren't missing anything.